For over 100 years Pine Mountain has been focused on enriching lives and connecting people through Appalachian place-based education for all ages.
An in-depth digital look at the Pine Mountain Settlement School Archive. The collections include photographs, documents, biographies, books, objects, videos, and other materials that describe the community and the rural settlement school from its beginnings in 1913 to the present day. Many documents are available in FULL TEXT. Work is ongoing.
ABOUT the Archive
INDEX TO SERIES AND GUIDES
FULL INDEX TO COLLECTIONS
Now over 2,000 pages of local and regional history and biographies.
OUR VISION
The Vision of the Pine Mountain Settlement School Archive is to provide a voice that will encourage transformations in our relationship to the cultures of the Appalachian region through access to a unique and extensive body of material. Pine Mountain is one of the earliest rural settlement schools within the Appalachian region. The Rural Settlement School Movement and its impact on the people of Eastern Kentucky and the Southern Appalachians is a story that has sometimes been misrepresented, romanticized, or only partially understood and described. We envision an accessible, deep, vibrant, and vital resource that will encourage exploration and collaborative dialogue about the hidden and sometimes contested history of rural settlement schools within the Appalachian dialog. We envision broader dissemination of research materials across all public, private, and federal sectors interested in Appalachian cultures and lives. more …
OUR ARCHIVAL MISSION
The Pine Mountain Settlement School archival mission supports the institutional mission and its strategic planning goals. Our institutional mission continues a long 108-year history of evolving educational and social enrichment programs centered on the local community and beyond. Once a boarding school with a progressive educational curriculum, Pine Mountain Settlement School’s recent educational programming has moved away from residential education to multi-faceted offerings of short-term environmental, cultural, medical, social, agricultural, and arts and crafts programs and workshops for all ages. But, the archive has not moved away from, nor will it move away from, a commitment to Pine Mountain as place and people. more …
To access the Archive go to INDEX TO COLLECTIONS (also at the top of the page) or use the Search Box TO SEARCH FOR SPECIFIC TOPICS.
THINKING OF VISITING PINE MOUNTAIN?
To learn more about the School’s current workshops, community interaction, annual events, and other activities, go to PINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL MAIN PAGE. There, you will find information about lodging, donating to the School and visiting the campus.
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ARCHIVE WHAT’S NEW AND OLD!
JULY
“Doctor’s Directions in case of typhoid. If a case of typhoid should break out this side of the mountain, everyone in the school, except those who have been inoculated in the past year, must be inoculated at once. …”
(Memorandum to PMSS staff, 1922.)
Photo: DR. GRACE HUSE with kittens in her pockets and on her shoulders. PMSS’s Big Laurel Medical Settlement physician, 1919-1924. See her BIOGRAPHY.
DARWIN D. MARTIN 1927
Correspondence (Part 1)
“I didn’t intend to beg when I wrote that letter to you. When I do intend to beg I will always hang up a flag so you will know ahead. ….You are so capable about getting things done promptly and cheaply for us that it is a great temptation to turn over requests to you. …”
Director Ethel Zande then “hangs up the flag” and tells him of PMSS’s needs.
(Zande to Martin, March 21,1927)
DARWIN D. MARTIN, Board member (1920-1933), and executive of the Larkin Company in Buffalo, NY. See his BIOGRAPHY and CORRESPONDENCE Guide. [Photo: Wikipedia Free Media Repository]
See the WHAT’S NEW! ARCHIVE for previously featured collections,
NOW IN A NEW EASIER-TO-NAVIGATE FORMAT. This archived list includes links to
FAMILIES IN PINE MOUNTAIN VALLEY COMMUNITY (See June and November 2018).
LATEST DIGITAL ADDITIONS
SEPTEMBER 2021
9/9 MARY ROCKWELL HOOK Correspondence 1920 [revision] – One of a series of pages displaying images of the letters of Mary Rockwell Hook, a PMSS trustee and the primary architect of several early PMSS buildings. A list of contents has been added to the 1920 page describing letters mostly from Katherine Pettit and Ethel de Long Zande. The co-directors provide Mary Rockwell with updates concerning PMSS staff and activities. See also the biography of Mary Rockwell Hook and a GUIDE to her correspondence.
9/4 JESS AND SALLIE CORNETT Staff and Community – Jess Cornett was the night watchman and groundskeeper at PMSS in the 1940s and 1950s; maintenance in the 1970s. His wife, Sallie (Wilder) Cornett was PMSS laundress in the 1940s and relief housemother at Big Log in 1941, 1942, and 1943.
9/4 JESS AND SALLIE CORNETT Correspondence, Contracts and letters from PMSS administration to Jess and Sallie Cornett, 1940 through 1950.
AUGUST 2021
8/15 EDUCATION Antioch College Cooperative Education at PMSS [revision]
EDUCATION Consumer Cooperative Curriculum [revision]
8/6 JAMES COLUMBUS AND EMILY HILL CREECH FAMILY Photographs 100-178 (Set 1)
JAMES COLUMBUS AND EMILY HILL CREECH FAMILY Photographs 200-299 (Set 2)
JAMES COLUMBUS AND EMILY HILL CREECH FAMILY Photographs 300-399 (Set 3)
JAMES COLUMBUS AND EMILY HILL CREECH FAMILY Photographs 400-499 (Set 4)
JAMES COLUMBUS AND EMILY HILL CREECH FAMILY Photographs 500-599 (Set 5)
JAMES COLUMBUS AND EMILY HILL CREECH FAMILY Photographs 600-699 (Set 6)
JAMES COLUMBUS AND EMILY HILL CREECH FAMILY Memorabilia
*JAMES COLUMBUS AND EMILY HILL CREECH FAMILY Letters and Documents
Early photographs, memorabilia, documents, and letters belonging to the extended family of Columbus and Emily Creech who lived in the Pine Mountain Community. Each set consists of approximately 100 items. Digitization of the Creech Family collection of photographs, as well as letters, documents, and memorabilia, is ongoing. (*Letters and Documents are password protected.)
Go to ARCHIVE LATEST DIGITAL ADDITIONS for previous lists.
COMMENTS and CONTACT
Comments and feedback regarding the material on this website or on the institutional history are welcomed. Comments directly on the website are not enabled.
Please contact office@pinemountainsettlementschool.com or (606) 558-3571 with your inquiries and comments. We welcome your identification of people and activities on our site and, particularly, corrections to the record. Please see OUR PRIVACY POLICY and contact our office if you believe we have violated your rights to privacy.
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ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION – PRINCIPLES AND BEST PRACTICES
ABOUT OCR TEXT
Many of the texts included in this site have been automatically generated using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. In some cases, these texts have not been manually reviewed or corrected.
OCR enables searching of large quantities of full-text data, but it is not 100% accurate. The level of accuracy depends on the print quality of the original publication and its condition at the time of microfilming. Publications with poor quality paper, small print, mixed fonts, multiple column layouts or damaged pages may have poor OCR accuracy.
CITATION OF MATERIALS
Any PUBLIC use of material must properly cite Pine Mountain Settlement School in the following manner:
“[Identification of Item],” [Collection Name] [Series Number, if applicable]. [date], Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY. [date accessed]
STATEMENT REGARDING PRIVACY
The manuscript collections and archival records in the Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections may contain sensitive and/or confidential information derived from historical archives that may be protected under federal and state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers who wish to publish and users who may share material from the Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections are advised by this notice that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in some collections within the Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g. may be a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy if facts concerning an individual’s private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person for which Pine Mountain Settlement School assumes no responsibility.
If you believe that your privacy rights have been invaded please notify the following.
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See INDEX TO COLLECTIONS for an overview of collections and series.